Essays In Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Course of Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage,

On Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

'On Love' is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love. A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so

School of Life - An Emotional Education (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

The Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will 'give one an expansive sense of wonder' (The Baltimore Sun). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and

Consolations of Philosophy (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and

Religion for Atheists - A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live. It looks at the God debate with fresh eyes

Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our

Status Anxiety (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics, this book reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their

The Course of Love (De Botton Alain)(Paperback)

'An engrossing tale that] provides plenty of food for thought' (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the

News - A User's Manual (Botton Alain de)(Paperback / softback)

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the

Architecture of Happiness (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their

Kiss & Tell (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Alain de Botton's Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life

Art as Therapy (Botton Alain)(Paperback)

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and

Dialogues and Essays (Seneca)(Paperback)

Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full rangeof his

In Praise Of Love (Badiou Alain)(Paperback / softback)

The author takes on contemporary 'dating agency' conceptions of love that come complete with zero-risk insurance. He develops a new take on love that sees it as an adventure, and an opportunity for re-invention, in a constant exploration of otherness and difference that leads the individual out of

Sarah Kane in Context: Essays (Vos Lauren de)(Paperback)

Erasers (Robbe-Grillet Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet Alain)(Paperback / softback)

In The Kitchen - Essays on food and life (Aribisala Yemisi)(Paperback / softback)

Changing My Mind - Occasional Essays (Smith Zadie)(Paperback / softback)

Features a collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in

Love In The Afternoon and Other Delights (Vincenzi Penny)(Paperback / softback)

A fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny

In the Night of Time (Molina Antonio Munoz)(Paperback / softback)

The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil

Regicide (Robbe-Grillet Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges the gap between traditional novel and the nouveau roman genre he would later espouse and make

Love + Hate - Stories and Essays (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Features a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, and an essay about the film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father. This collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole authors life